1602
ist January   A saying of marston    Manmngham's Dtary, p 36
2nd January   the great losses at kinsale    S P Ireland, 209  249
ird January A desperate attempt at ostend As for aoth
December, this account is taken mostly from Hexham Ostend was
desperately held in the Spanish War (as Ypres in the Great War) rather as
a symbol of the diehard spirit than for its military value
4th January    * A defence of tabacco '   A R , m 199 , S T C , 6468
6A January   A great victory in ireland    A R , m 202 , S T C ,
7434
news from ostend    AR,m 200 ? S T C, 18891
%th January c the unmasking of the politic atheist * A R ,
v 199, STC> 13934
i 2th January A saying concerning osten d Manmngham's Diary*
> 15
i6th January    ostend    Salisbury Papers, xn 607
January * the merry wives of windsor ' A R , m 199 ,
or a discussion of the tradition that the play was written to order of the
Jueen, see the edition in the New Shakespeare, edited by A T QuilJer-
-ouch and J Dover Wilson, 1921, p vni
A gardener's mischance    Mid Sess Rolls, i 276
i$th January    ostend    As for 20th December
zoth January the spaniards surrender at kinsale As for
th January , winwood's Memorials , i 378
26th January the case of sir thomas posthumus hoby See
oth September, 1600 , Society Women of Shakespeare* s Times, by Violet A
Vilson, p 255
28^ January the siege of ostend Salisbury Papers, xn 33
%rom a letter of Sir R Cecil to G Nicholson, who adds, * I send you a
amphlet written by a principal captain of Ostend wherein you shall see
true relation of all the proceedings The style is but coarse, neither
lould it have passed in all things as it doth if I had seen it, but such is the
reedmess of printers as they will never refuse anything that is brought to
le press '
January    ireland    S P Ireland, arc  22
^nd February mr john donne's marriage The Loseley Manu-
r##, edited by A J Kempe, 1836, pp 326-343, and The Life and Letters
*John Donne, by Edmund Gosse, 1899, chapter iv
* twelfth night* Manmngham's Dtary, p 18 Shakespeare
cew more than usual from current events in constructing this play The
>arrell case was still sufficiently recent for the * possession ' and ' dis-
ossesston ' of the Puritan Malvolio to have topical flavour For a notable
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